Save money with your agent
How to save money on property tax with an AI agent
Your agent reads your assessment notice and your county's appeal rules, then Tuvoz calls 3 local property tax consultants about your case and their fees, so you can decide whether to appeal.
What you could save
In one Texas county, 76.6% of homeowners' appeals lowered the assessed value.
Successful appeals there saved an average of $446 in the first year.
How to do it with your agent
Step 1
Let your agent read your email
Connect Gmail, or the inbox you use, to your agent so it can find your latest assessment notice or tax bill: the assessed value, the tax, and any exemptions already applied.
- claude.ai: connect Gmail under Customize > Connectors. Anthropic's help
- Claude Code: uses the connectors you added on claude.ai when you sign in with your Claude account, so connect Gmail there first. Claude Code docs
- ChatGPT and Codex: add the Gmail plugin under Settings > Plugins. Codex uses the same plugins, except in the IDE extension. OpenAI's help
- Meta Muse: go to Settings > Connectors, or ask it to connect your Gmail. You choose whether it can only read your mail. Meta's help
- OpenClaw: use the bundled gog skill, which needs your own Google OAuth setup. the skill's docs
No email access? Paste it or forward it into the chat instead.
Step 2
Set up Tuvoz
Paste this into your agent. Skip this step if it already has Tuvoz.
Set up Tuvoz: https://staging.tuvoz.io/agentsStep 3
Run this prompt
Paste it into the same chat. Change anything first, like how many places to call.
Find my latest property tax assessment notice or tax bill in my email. Look up my county's appeal deadline, the steps to appeal on my own, and any exemptions I might qualify for, on the county's own website. Then use Tuvoz to call 3 well-reviewed property tax consultants near me, at their local numbers, and ask whether they'd take my case, how they charge, whether I owe anything if the appeal fails, and what they'd need. Share only my property address and the assessed value. Don't share my date of birth, Social Security number or card numbers. Don't sign anything or agree to a fee; ask me first. Show me the plan before you call, then give me the deadline, the steps to appeal myself, and the consultants' terms side by side.
In a study of single-family homeowners in Dallas County, Texas, most who appealed got a lower assessed value. Most homeowners there didn’t appeal. Rules and odds differ by county, so the first job is reading yours.
Your agent reads your assessment notice or tax bill, then looks up your county’s appeal deadline, the steps and the exemptions on the county’s own website. Tuvoz calls up to 3 local property tax consultants and asks whether they’d take your case, what they charge and what they’d need. You decide whether to appeal on your own, hire someone, or leave it.
What Tuvoz can’t do: call the assessor’s office
Tuvoz doesn’t dial local government offices. They’re on the list of numbers it never calls, along with city halls, courthouses and police. Your agent reads the county’s appeal rules and deadlines online instead. If you have a question only the assessor can answer, you call them yourself.
Who Tuvoz calls
Property tax consultants near you, sometimes listed as property tax appeal or tax reduction firms, at the local numbers on their listings.
What the consultant hears
Every call opens the same way:
“Hi! I’m Jane Doe’s AI assistant, calling through Tuvoz about a property tax appeal.”
Then it asks whether it may record the call. If they say yes, it gives your property address and assessed value, and asks whether they’d take the case, how they charge, whether you owe anything if the appeal fails, and what they’d need from you. If they ask something the brief doesn’t cover, the voice agent asks your agent mid-call, and Tuvoz calls you if your agent can’t answer. More on this in how the mid-call backchannel works.
What comes back
The county’s deadline and steps for appealing on your own, any exemptions that look like a fit, and a short table of the consultants: whether they’d take it, how they charge, and what they need.
What it won’t do
- Share your date of birth, Social Security number or card numbers.
- Sign anything, agree to a fee or file an appeal.
- Call the assessor or any other local government office, toll-free numbers or someone’s mobile.
What it costs
Three calls of about 4 minutes each is 12 minutes, or $1.44 (720 seconds × $0.002). Tuvoz charges $0.12 a minute, billed per second with a 30-second minimum per answered call leg, including calls to your own phone. Calls nobody answers cost nothing. A new account starts with 15 minutes of free talk time.
FAQ
- Do I need a consultant at all?
- Often not. Many counties let you appeal on your own without a filing fee, and California's Attorney General warns that government agencies don't charge for reassessment. Some counties do charge a filing fee, so your agent checks yours. A consultant can help with the evidence, for a share of what you save.
- How do consultants charge?
- The NBER study found that agents in Dallas County typically charge a flat fee plus a percentage of the tax savings, sometimes up to 50% of the savings. Ask each one, and compare that with doing it yourself.
- Why doesn't Tuvoz call the assessor's office?
- Tuvoz doesn't dial local government offices, city halls, courthouses or police. Your agent reads the county's own rules online, and if you have a question only the assessor can answer, you call them yourself.
- How many consultants can it call?
- A free account can call 3 new numbers a day, one call at a time. A paid account can call 10 new numbers a day, up to 3 at once.
Sources
More ways to save with your agent
- How to save money on car insurance with an AI agent
- How to save money on home insurance with an AI agent
- How to save money on your phone bill with an AI agent
- How to save money on your internet bill with an AI agent
- How to save money on car repairs with an AI agent
- How to save money on home repairs with an AI agent
- How the mid-call backchannel works